Maybe we should cut commericals down from 2 minutes to one minute, and have fewer breaks.
Hah! The SciFi Network's standard commercial break is 3 minutes, which cleanly translates to 6 clicks on the TiVO quick skip button if you're on the ball.
If Nielson is really smart, they'll start tracking fast-forwarding and rewind behavior.
It would also be interesting if they found any correlations in the actual viewing times for certain shows, i.e. what should primetime really be showing?
When I was at Lotus, in Cambridge, MA, they had an on-site day-care center. It was small and well run, and the waiting list was longer than your average childhood. I was lucky enough to find another high-quality day-care center close by, and I was only at Lotus for 6 months, so I was glad I wasn't tied down to my company's daycare when I left.
I think the biggest issue with corporate sponsored day-care is the difficulty of insuring a reliable stream of customers. You can't just whip up a few more good daycare professionals when the demand spikes, so the only possible solution I've seen caters to a small, but loyal, customer base. Obviously, this can never totally satisfy the demand for day-care at a company, and it is simply out of reach for smaller companies.
Sure does sound like the Academy is now in the business of prolonging the life of what must a fairly lucrative, if somewhat invisible, sector of the movie industry, namely copying and distributing film.
There's big money here, right? Except for the coarse way in which it is presented (haven't these guys heard of spin?), we should not be shocked at the reaction against a serious threat to the hegemony.
If this is nothing but a lenticular screen in front of an LCD panel, then the "technology" has been around forever and the "quality" is every bit as wonderful as a cheesy 3D postcard. You won't need a head-tracking device because, to play Quake on it, you're going to want to strap your head to a board.
A funny, nasty, and rather self-satisfied look at the author's successful jaunt through Internet entrepreneurship. Details the creation of Vermeer and its eventual sellout to Microsoft as FrontPage.
If you want to know all the low-down dirty and mean things that people will do to each other in this business, read this book.
Hyperion / Fall of Hyperion Endymion / Rise of Endymion
I constantly recommend this series to all my sci-fi reading friends. They are not known nor appreciated nearly enough. They compare quite well with Foundation and Dune.
Dan Simmons is a very creative writer with a strong talent for visualization and grand scenarios. I still carry vivid images of scenes from these books in my mind after many years. Nobody will ever forget The Shrike.
Buy them in pairs or you will be sorry. Hyperion was originally one book and was split in two by the publisher and it shows.
Hyperion is structured like the Canterbury Tales, with a superb integration of the story lines.
Endymion is something else altogether. Beware if you harbor any strong allegiance to the Catholic church.
This is exactly how I read the original question. Stock in lieu of salary has some differing tax implications than stock options. You may have to pay taxes on the stock (as a form of compensation) right away, and that tax will depend on the current valuation of the stock, which is a rather subjective number in the early days of a new company.
All the rest of the discussion around the *eventual* value of the stock is right on. You had better believe in the company, and you must be prepared to work your ass off to maintain the value of your "investment", which is what this really comes down to.
Oracle => Tractor-trailer Postgres => Honda MySQL => Go-cart
Two of the above vehicles are reasonably safe for use on public roads, the other one is just for fun, but it will get you in big trouble if you drive it on the highway. Likewise two of the above "databases" are reasonably safe for use in e-commerce, the other one is not suitable for managing your own or other people's monetary transactions.
Slashdot Mirror
I hear that a good chunk of downtown Commonwealth Ave. is wide open thanks to Boston University and all the brownstones they use as dormitories there.
If Nielson is really smart, they'll start tracking fast-forwarding and rewind behavior.
It would also be interesting if they found any correlations in the actual viewing times for certain shows, i.e. what should primetime really be showing?
He can't tell the difference between dying and saturated.
When I was at Lotus, in Cambridge, MA, they had an on-site day-care center. It was small and well run, and the waiting list was longer than your average childhood. I was lucky enough to find another high-quality day-care center close by, and I was only at Lotus for 6 months, so I was glad I wasn't tied down to my company's daycare when I left.
I think the biggest issue with corporate sponsored day-care is the difficulty of insuring a reliable stream of customers. You can't just whip up a few more good daycare professionals when the demand spikes, so the only possible solution I've seen caters to a small, but loyal, customer base. Obviously, this can never totally satisfy the demand for day-care at a company, and it is simply out of reach for smaller companies.
There's big money here, right? Except for the coarse way in which it is presented (haven't these guys heard of spin?), we should not be shocked at the reaction against a serious threat to the hegemony.
If this is nothing but a lenticular screen in front of an LCD panel, then the "technology" has been around forever and the "quality" is every bit as wonderful as a cheesy 3D postcard. You won't need a head-tracking device because, to play Quake on it, you're going to want to strap your head to a board.
Talk about a "triumph of marketing"...
A funny, nasty, and rather self-satisfied look at the author's successful jaunt through Internet entrepreneurship. Details the creation of Vermeer and its eventual sellout to Microsoft as FrontPage.
If you want to know all the low-down dirty and mean things that people will do to each other in this business, read this book.
Hyperion / Fall of Hyperion
Endymion / Rise of Endymion
I constantly recommend this series to all my sci-fi reading friends. They are not known nor appreciated nearly enough. They compare quite well with Foundation and Dune.
Dan Simmons is a very creative writer with a strong talent for visualization and grand scenarios. I still carry vivid images of scenes from these books in my mind after many years. Nobody will ever forget The Shrike.
Buy them in pairs or you will be sorry. Hyperion was originally one book and was split in two by the publisher and it shows.
Hyperion is structured like the Canterbury Tales, with a superb integration of the story lines.
Endymion is something else altogether. Beware if you harbor any strong allegiance to the Catholic church.
This is exactly how I read the original question. Stock in lieu of salary has some differing tax implications than stock options. You may have to pay taxes on the stock (as a form of compensation) right away, and that tax will depend on the current valuation of the stock, which is a rather subjective number in the early days of a new company.
All the rest of the discussion around the *eventual* value of the stock is right on. You had better believe in the company, and you must be prepared to work your ass off to maintain the value of your "investment", which is what this really comes down to.
The whole rant about "usurping our precious bodily fluids!".
Right on, bro. Developers are users, too. I've got better things to do than debug my desktop.
Oracle => Tractor-trailer
Postgres => Honda
MySQL => Go-cart
Two of the above vehicles are reasonably safe for use on public roads, the other one is just for fun, but it will get you in big trouble if you drive it on the highway. Likewise two of the above "databases" are reasonably safe for use in e-commerce, the other one is not suitable for managing your own or other people's monetary transactions.
Kibbles & Bits, anyone?